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H, ye rich and wear)% what wouldn't you 
pay to prolong life so that you can en- 
joy the fruits of your brain and energy? 

Wh}" not cash in the outstanding- 
lines before it is too late and go to the 
land of sunshine and flowers and 

pleasure, and live the balance of the days where there 

are no snows and ageing winters? 

Why not send the children to school in California 
and permit them to gain perfect health while gaining 
their education? San Jose has greater opportunities for 
business or classical educations than can be found in any 
one place, and the climate is perfect for such institutions. 

The great Stanford University lies at our gates, 
and has at present about 2,000 students. Tuition free. 
The State Normal School at San Jose is the best in the 
West; at present about 800 students. Tuition free. The 
University of the Pacific at San Jose has about 400 
students, and boards and educates them for about S300 
per season, both male and female. The Santa Clara 
College with about 350 students (male), at about the 
same. The Convent of Notre Dame (female), at San 
Jose, has the same. The San Jose High Schools and 
Grammar Schools rank higher than an}^ schools in the 
West, and as high as an}- in the United States, all free. 



SAN JOSE and SANTA CLARA. VALLEY are 
horticulturally, viticulturally and agriculturall}^ the 
most interesting parts of California. Read up about 
them, and a stamp sent to the Secretary of the San Jose 
Improvement Club, San Jos6 (pronounced San Hosa}''), 
Cal., will obtain illustrated pamphlets on the subject. 




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San Jose, 



THE GARDEN CITY OF THE SANTA CLARA VALLEY. 



BY CHAS. AMADON MOODY 



NE hundred and twenty-four years ayo, Senor Don Felipe de 
Neve, Governor of New California, ordered to report to Charles 
III of Spain, through his Viceroy in Mexico, where within 
his Province settlements might best be made, named one tract of land 
" forty-two leagues from the Presidio of San Diego and two from the 
Mission of San Gabriel," and another "on the margin of the river 
Guadalupe, twenty-six leagues distant from the Presidio of Monterey, 
sixteen from that of San Francisco, and three-quarters of a league 
from the Mission of Santa Clara." On 

one site was soon after t established the 

Pueblo de la Reina ^^ de Los Angeles. On 

the other, Nov. ^^^^ 29th, 1777, nine sol- 

diers " skill- 
ed in agri- 




Photo, by Tucker, Santa Clara. 
CITY HAI,I, PAKK AND PO-STOFl'ICE, SAN JOSE. 

culture" and five settlers founded the Pueblo de San Jose de Guada- 
lupe. Today the cities of Los Angeles and San Jos^ stand as splendid 
witnesses to the sagacity of the man who marked in advance the spot 
on which each should rise. 

To follow the history of San Jose through the century and a 
quarter since then would be a fascinating journey, but outside the 
purpose of this article. Yet one may pause a moment to see with 
Vancouver on his way to San Jose, in 1792, "a very pleasant and 
enchanting lawn, situated amid a grove of trees at the foot of a small 
hill, by which flowed a xQvy fine stream of excellent water," and to find 

*Reprinted from The Land of Sunshine, the mag-a/.iue of California and the West, 
Los Anereles. 



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Photo, by Tucker, Sauia Clara. 



I.OOKING SOUTH 



St. James Park. 



with him in the coixntry hereabout "a rich, black, productive mold, 
superior to any I had seen before in America." Then came long^ 
peaceful years of sheep and cattle — or their derivatives, hides and 
tallow — slowly g^iving place to wheat and barley — years hardly ruflfled 
even by the shifting of sovereig'nt)' from Spain to the Republic of 
Mexico, nor by the revolutionary " g^rowing-pains" which tormented 
the new ruling State. But the Gringo came, first by ones and twos, 
then by scores and hundreds. Then follow vividly illuminating his- 
torical flash-lights of the day in July, 1846, when the flag of the 
United States was first flung to the breeze of the Santa Clara Valley; 
of the day five months later when for hours San Jos^ was thrilled by 
distant gun-fire telling of battle joined between Saxon and Latin ; 
of the emptied streets and deserted fields when the gold delirium set 
every brain a-whirling ; of the pride of Sat: Jos^ over her choice as 
first capital of the State of California and the gallant public spirit of 
those nineteen citizens who pledged themselves for $34,000 at interest 
of eight per cent a month to purchase the adobe building "sixty 
feet long, forty feet wide, two stories high, and adorned with a 
piazza in front," which served as the first State-house in California ; 
of her dolor when scant two years later that crown passed from her 
brow (nor has yet been recovered, in spite of several almost success- 
ful attempts); of the fights, for the public entertainment and in the 
public square, between wild bull and grizzlj' bear, the bear having 
been lassoed and brought iti for the occasion by " three or four 
Mexicans." But the reader who cares to follow these matters and who 
is fortunate enough to have access to the volume, may find all this 



"THE GARDEN CITY. 




ON FIRST STREET, SAN JOSlt. 

St. James Hotel. Court House. 



Hall of Records. 



and more in Frederick Hall's "History of San Jos^ and Surround- 
ing's." Our task is with the present. 

San Jos^, then, is located fifty miles south of San Francisco, a few- 
miles from the lower end of the southern arm of San Francisco Bay. 
It is, as nearly as possible, exactly on the halfway line as one paces 
the State from North to South. It has been since 1850 an incorpor- 
ated city, but has far outgrown the limits originally set for it. The 
population within the legal boundaries of the city is only about 
22,000 ; if one includes those suburbs which are really a continuous 
and closely settled part of the city, the figures mount to about 35,000. 
Nor does this count in the city of Santa Clara, three miles away and 
connected by electric road. Ffi'ectively, therefore, it is the fourth 
city, in point of population, in the State, San Francisco, I,os Angeles 
and Oakland alone ranking it. For beauty, for charm, for comfort, 
for solid and deep-rooted prosperity, for intellectual and moral stand- 
ing, for all that makes life best worth living, its citizens are not pre- 
pared to concede the palm to any other point whatever. Nor should 
they, as will appear. 

For what it is — and for that even larger, finer and more important 
life which shall surely come to it — San Jos^ admits — nay, boasts ! — 
its indebtedness to the marvelous Santa Clara Valley which surrounds 
it — that valley which Bayard Taylor pronounced "one of the three 
most beautiful valleys in the world," and which Chauncey Depew 
named "the richest in the world." For upon the configuration of 
the valley depends the superb climate which makes San Jos(J in sum- 
mer a favorite resort for San Franciscans; in the enchanting season 



SAN JOSE, 




SANTA CLAKA STREET, SAN JOSE, IN 1901. Photo, by Tucker, Santa Clara. 

which there passes for winter, one of the choicest of spots in which 
to escape the bite of any real winter weather ; and all the year round 
a place in which it is good just to be alive. And upon the richness 
of its broad stretches of alluvial soil, the abundant supply of artesian 
water everywhere underlying- the valley, and that same all-but-per- 
fect climate which makes living- so delightful, depends the enormous 
production of things g-ood to fill the world's stomach withal which is 
the fountain spring of San Josh's prosperity. 




SANTA CI,ARA STREET IN 1851. From an old print. 



"THE GARDEN CITY." 7 

Some sixty miles from north to south, about twenty from east to 
west, shut in east and west by the ranges of Mt. Hamilton and Santa 
Cruz, opening northward to the broad bay of San Francisco, narrow- 
ing southward to the Pajaro Valley — there is the Santa Clara Val- 
ley geographically. An average annual rainfall of fifteen inches, 
275 to 300 clear days in everj- year, rarelj' any fog, rarely any high 
winds, never any extremes of heat or cold, never any "bad weather" 
except for those who will find the golden streets too yellow or not 
yellow enough — there is the Santa Clara Valley climatically. An 
assessed valuation of $52,000,000 to a poimlation of 65,000 (the high- 




Photo, by Tuckor, Santa Clara. 
A FKUIT-CROWBK'S home in the SANTA CI,ARA VAI^tEY. 

est per capita in the State), a product last year for export of more 
than $7,000,000, no great fortunes as fortunes go in these days, but 
many little ones, and an average of comfot^able incomes^there is the 
Santa Clara Valley financially. A contribution last year to the out- 
side world of 100,000,000 pounds of dried prunes, peaches, apricots 
and other fruits, 10,000,000 two-and-a-half pound tins of canned 
fruits, 20,000,000 pounds of fresh fruits, and important quantities of 
vegetables, farm and dairy products, a very important fraction of 
the total vineyard output of California, the larger fraction of all 
the seeds raised in the United States, and (from the New Amadcn 
mine) a share of the quicksilver product of the world only exceeded 



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by that of Spain — there is the Santa Clara Valley economically. 
Thousands of delig-htful homes, owned bj' their occupants, set in 
ten or twenty acre orchards, land and improvements paid for mainly 
out of the product of the land itself, yielding' regularly revenue 
enoug-h not only to pay for all the "must's" but for many of the 
"would-like-to's" of life ; within easy access of unusually rich 
educational facilities, and in close touch with the best our civilization 
has to offer — this is the Santa Clara Valley in its most sig-nificant 
aspect. Best of all is the fact that there is yet full place in the val- 
ley for other thousands of homes every whit as charming- and desir- 




Photo. by Tucker, Santa Clara. 
A IvITTJCK I'ATCH OV CARROTS FOR SEED. 



able, and opportunity for achievement, if not richer, at least more 
evident than before so much had already been accomplished. 

These tens and hundreds of millions by which the annual fruit 
product of the Santa Clara Valley is measured slipped lightly from 
the pen a moment ago. Turn, for contrast, to the figures of thirty 
years past and note far down on the list of valley products for 1870, 
" Fruit, 70,000 pounds," Indeed, it was not until ten years later that 
the pioneer ten-acre orchard of French prunes, set out in 1873 and 
still yielding- annually five tons or more to the acre, bore its first sub- 
stantial crop, which then (and for five successive years) sold for $4,000 



on the trees. It only needed that 
first crop to open the eyes of 
dwellers in the valley. How 
widely they opened, once the 
scales fell off, the tens of thou- 
sands of acres of bearing- fruit 
trees give abundant evidence. 

"Overproduction"? Psha! 
The lowest price yet seen for 
dried fruit was thirteen years 
a.go, when the fruit crop of the 
valley was not one-tenth of what 
it is today. And there is not 
the slightest reason to suppose 
that the world's appetite is not 
keen enough to desire or its purse 
not long enough to paj' for every 
pound of fruit that can ever be 
raised in this favored valley. He 
who thinks otherwise may stand 
up and be counted with the 
" never-happy-unless-I'm - miser- 
able" family. 

Of San Jos^, heart and center 
of this fair domain, it is hard to 
write in words that will not seem 
(to those who do not know ) ex- 
travagant and exaggerated. It 
is but the sober truth — or so ap- 
pears to one who lives in and 
dearly loves queenly Los An- 
geles, and whose business it has 
been to see and know the State 
from end to end — that there is no 
more beautiful city in all Cali- 
fornia than this ; not one which 
will better repay a prolonged 
visit from the stranger who 
would see California at her best ; 
not one which rich man or poor, 
coming from less favored spots 
may more reasonably choose to 
make his home ; not one where 
brains, industry, or capital maj' 
be invested with fairer certainty 
of full reward. If any doubt 
this, let them come and see. My 
word for it, the trip will be worth 
while. 

It would be utterly hopeless to 
try to prove these statements in 




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ON THE ALAMEDA. Photo, by Tucker, Santa Clara. 




THE ST. CI.AIKE CtUB, SAN JOSE. Photo, by Tucker, Santa Clara. 




detail within the space available 
— hopeless, indeed, however many 
pages should be used. For how 
can one convey on the printed 
page the charm of long, clean 
streets, shaded bj' poplar, and 
pine and oak, framed on either 
side with deep, green lawns, 
studded with shrubs and trees 
and flowers and themselves fram- 
ing homes of every degree from 
stately mansions to tiny cot- 
tages ? Or, how picture in 
black and white the effect of a 
rose climbing right to the top of 
a somber cj-press, masking one 
side completely with blossom, 
and tossing a shower of copper 
and gold far down the other! Yet 
these things, and the like, make 
the beauty of San Jos^. 

"Garden City" it is called; 
"Park City" would be quite as 
appropriate. For to name only 
the points of which photographic 
glimpses are given in these pages, 
there is St. James Park, almost 
at the very business-heart of the 
city — fronting, indeed, toward 
three buildings that would be 
notable anj'where, the county 
Court-house, Hall of Records and 
Hotel St. James ; the City Hall 
Park, from which one looks 
across the fine postoflfice buildings 
to the towers of the church and 
School of St. Joseph (San Jos^) . 
the park of 28 acres in which 
stand, side by side, the State Nor- 
mal School — first Normal School 
in the State by full twenty years 
— and the High School, and in 
which will soon be built the fine 
new home of the Free Public 
Library', the gift to the city of 
Andrew Carnegie ; the private 
park of twelve acres in which the 
Hotel Vendome stands, a hotel, by 
the way, up to the very highest 
standards in all essential matters; 
and Alum Rock Park, seven miles 



away in the foothills, owned by 
the city, connected with it by 
motor line, and entirely unique 
in its combination of carefully- 
kept lawns, flower-g-ardens, porce- 
lain-tubbed, hot and cold, sul- 
phur baths, restaurant, deer-parlv- 
and aviary, with untouched and 
unspoiled caiions, creeks, hills 
and waterfalls. 

With equal justice might San 
Jose be called the "City of 
Schools." To say nothing- of its 
kinderg-arten, public and hig-h 
schools there are within its 
bounds, or rig-ht at its doors, 
the oldest and largest State Nor- 
mal School (established at San 
Francisco in 1862, removed to 
San Jose in 1871, eleven years be- 
fore the second Normal School of 
the State was opened at Los 
Angeles), the oldest Catholic and 
the oldest Protestant college in 
the State, the newest and most 
splendidly endowed University in 
the world, and the long-estab- 
lished College of Notre Dame for 
women. To do justice to any one 
of them would require more 
space than is to be had here. Yet 
one must note that the College of 
Santa Clara (Jesuit), among 
whose distinguished sons Los 
Angeles may probably claim 
Stephen M. White as first with- 
out dissent, and the University 
of the Pacific (Methodist) each 
celebrates this year its golden 
jubilee. Of Leland Stanford, 
Jr., University, fourteen miles 
away at Palo Alto, with its stu- 
dent-body of 1500, and its faculty 
called and chosen from the pick 
of the cout.try, founded and en- 
dowed with twenty-six millions — 
all that they had — by a father and 
mother, in memory of their only 
son, all the world knows. 

Neither can one fail to mention 
the splendid Lick Observatory, 




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Photo, bj' Tucker, Santa Clara. 
A CLIMPSU OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY. 



with the second larg-est telescope in the v.-orld and other equipment to 
match, on the summit of Mt. Hamilton, 13 miles from San Jose as 
the crow flies, 28 miles by stag-e over one of the most comfortable 
and picturesque mountain-roads in the world. It is open to the pub- 
lic cver3'day in the year, and once each week (of a Saturday evenin3-) 
any who will may peer throug-h the instrument. 

By way of side-ligfht on the social life of San Jose, we may just name 
the St. Claire Club, whose most attractive home is freely, opened to 
members of similarly classed clubs in other cities ; the Linda Vista 
Golf Club, with a delig-htftil house and links fascinating- to lovers of 
the ancient and honorable sport ; the new Athletic Club, )f 350 mem- 




THK museum, STANFORD UNIVERSITY. 




THE AVIAKY AT ALUM ROCK PARK. Photo, by Tucker, Santa Clara. 




LICK OBSERVATORY, MT. HAMILTON. Photo, by Tucker, Santa Clara. 



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bers ; and the Santa Clara Valley Improvement Club, including^ the 
leaders in business and professional life, at whose weekly meetings 

every thing' conceiv- 
able for the advance- 
ment and glory 
of San Jos6 
and the 
Santa 
Clara 




THE HIGH SCHOOL, SAX JOSK. 



Photo, by Tucker, Santa Clara. 



Valley, from tne entertainment of Mr. McKinley to the price of prunes, 
is freely discussed and promptly acted upon, and whose further func- 
tion it is to supply information about the city and valley to all. 

Has it been made clear that San Jos^ is 
good to look upon and one of the chosen 
spots on earth in which to dwell ? If not, 

the fault is 




STATE NORMAL, SCHOOI., SAN JOSE. 



Photo, by Tucker, Santa Clara. 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

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POINTS OF INTEREST ADJACENT TO 

SAN JOSE 

(Pronounced San tlosay') 

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The great Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton with the 
greatest telescopes in the world. 

Alum Rock Park and Sulphur Springs with hot and 
cold and plunge baths in the finest modern porcelain 
tiled buildings. 

The New Almaden Quicksilver Mines, the largest in 
the world. 

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The miles of orchards and fine roads, making interest- 
ing drives through the orchards among the beautiful 
homes. 

The gigantic Redwood Trees at Felton. 

The beautiful 27-mile drive along the foothills to Los 
Gatos and Pacific Congress Springs at Saratoga. 

The luscious fruits, for here are found all those of the 
temperate and semi-tropical zones, and in such quantities 
and magnificence that overland railroads are needed in their 
transportation. 

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The beautiful flowers, both of the garden and the field, 
that eclipse King Solomon's splendor. 

The opportunities of business profit, for this city has 
just been connected by the new Overland Route to all 
Eastern points (per S. P. R. R. ), and the new growth 
has already commenced. Live men can now reap the 
reward. 



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